5.002 beta 1

If you're adventurous, have a look at

    ftp://ftp.sems.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.002beta1.tar.gz

Many thanks to Andy for doing the integration.

Obviously, if you consult the bugs database, you'll note there are
still plenty of buglets that need fixing, and several enhancements that
I've intended to put in still haven't made it in (Hi, Tim and Ilya).
But I think it'll be pretty stable.  And you can start to fiddle around
with prototypes (which are, of course, still totally undocumented).

Packrats, don't worry too much about readvertising this widely.
Nowadays we're on a T1 here, so our bandwidth is okay.

Have the appropriate amount of jollity.

Larry

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/EXTERN.h b/EXTERN.h
index 765c558255..dedd37958c 100644
--- a/EXTERN.h
+++ b/EXTERN.h
@@ -7,8 +7,21 @@
  *
  */
 
+/*
+ * EXT  designates a global var which is defined in perl.h
+ * dEXT designates a global var which is defined in another
+ *      file, so we can't count on finding it in perl.h
+ *      (this practice should be avoided).
+ */
 #undef EXT
-#define EXT extern
+#undef dEXT
+#if defined(VMS) && !defined(__GNUC__)
+#  define EXT globalref
+#  define dEXT globaldef {"$GLOBAL_RW_VARS"} noshare
+#else
+#  define EXT extern
+#  define dEXT
+#endif
 
 #undef INIT
 #define INIT(x)